Category : Washington

T”wina Nobles
By Chris B. Bennett
The Seattle Medium
At first glance, one could easily believe that T’wina Nobles, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Tacoma Urban League, grew up in a middle class neighborhood, attended the bes...

Victoria Woodards
The City of Tacoma has allocated $1.2 million to assist eligible households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with rent payment.
The program, which launched last Wednesday, provides a one-time payment of up to $1,000 directly to lan...

By Ebony Miranda
Chair, Black Lives Matter of Seattle/King County
May 1 is International Day of the Worker. In the U.S., workers hit hardest by COVID-19 are Black and other People of Color; thousands descend from immigrants or came to America on thei...

Staff members and volunteers from the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle puttogether bags of food for community members in need. Photo courtesy of the UrbanLeague.
By Aaron Allen
The Seattle Medium
Throughout the current COVID-19 Pandemic that we a...

Nairobi’s slums are home to the poorest of Kenyan society. Poor sanitation and overcrowding make social distancing an impossible task, raising fears about the potential spread of the novel coronavirus. CNN’s Farai Sevenzo reports.
The p...

Former Seattle King County NAACP President Sadiqa Sakin
On April 21, 2020, The NAACP National Board of Directors effectively removed former Seattle King County NAACP President Sadiqa Sakin from the local Branch as both an officer and as a member.
Acc...

Georgia coroner Michael Fowler pleads with residents to stay home, warning that people going outside without masks could die from contracting coronavirus.
The post Coroner: People Without Masks Playing ‘Russian Roulette’ With Life appea...

13-year old Paris Brown (at left, pictured with her mother, Shenay) is the daughter of NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent, Stacy and Shenay Brown. She’s also a member of the National Junior Honor Society.
By Paris Brown
Special to the NNPA N...

The CDC also emphasizes that communities should “plan for how to connect clients to housing opportunities after they have completed their stay in these temporary sites.” Elevating conversations on housing services post-COVID-19 allows us to step back...

Last week, the City of Seattle announced it has expanded eligibility for its Emergency Child Care program, administered through the Department of Education and Early Learning. First launched to serve first responders and workers in healthcare, grocer...

By Julianne Malveaux
TriceEdneyWire.com
The daily White House coronavirus briefings have made me cringe, scream, shake my head, and even laugh! The President of the United States offers medical advice, minimizes the coronavirus, injects partisanship...

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—If we didn’t know before, we now know that we have a failed Federal government. The man in the White House is so bad that we don’t really need to look for failures down the line. There was a time Black people could look to the U....

Grammy-winner DJ Jazzy Jeff says he’s suffering from COVID-19, and that he believes he contracted the virus while in Idaho.
The post DJ Jazzy Jeff Describes His Experience With Coronavirus appeared first on The Seattle Med...

King County Executive Dow Constantine
In an effort to expand COVID-19 response and recovery efforts, King County Executive Dow Constantine proposed a $57 million emergency supplemental budget, to be funded by federal, state, and local revenue, to the...